Coal power plant in Pljevlja, Montenegro. Approximate location 43.3342, 19.3271.
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Pljevlja Coal Power Plant Montenegro is a 225 MW coal power station in Pljevlja, Montenegro. It is operated by Elektroprivreda Crne Gore AD [100%]. Based on reported annual generation of 1,265 GWh, it can supply roughly 361k homes. It ranks #6 of 10 Montenegro power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1982, it is around 44 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 24.4% of Montenegro's electricity; the national grid averages 264 gCO₂/kWh (75.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0042685.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000103049); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Elektroprivreda Crne Gore AD [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 57% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 82/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #3 largest coal power plant of 4 in Montenegro by capacity.
Montenegro has 4 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,635 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 43.3342, 19.3271 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Pljevlja Coal Power Plant Montenegro is a 225 MW source-record coal power plant in Pljevlja, Montenegro, commissioned in 1982.
Pljevlja Coal Power Plant Montenegro generates about 1,265 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 361,314 homes.
Pljevlja Coal Power Plant Montenegro is operated by Elektroprivreda Crne Gore AD [100%].
